Brewery Beat Pigskin Brewing Company opened in February. Originally planned to open near Grandview, the sports-centric brewery is located in downtown Gahanna. Lineage Brewing last month received their federal brewer’s permit. There are still state…

Brewery Beat Columbus Brewing Company revealed plans for new branding, including new bottles and labels. The brewery is expanding later this year into a 50,000 square-foot production facility with a 30bbl brewhouse. Smokehouse Brewing Company…

It’s a lovely fall afternoon, and the Columbus Historical Club’s Doug Motz is sipping cocktails on the patio of the Grass Skirt Tiki Room, pointing out George the Pig—a statue which has apparently been called…

Throughout history, mankind has favored above all else the combination of booze and bacon. Well, maybe not that far back in history, and maybe not all of mankind…but definitely “me” and “since I’ve been old…

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. According to the men behind Mad Moon Cider, that phrase, a Benjamin Franklin adapation of an old proverb, refers to drinking, not eating apples—and fermented ones at…

Brewery Beat Temperance Row Brewing has opened in uptown Westerville—its name a nod to the neighborhood’s prohibition past. The brewery employs Scott Francis, original brewmaster at both Columbus Brewing Company and Barley’s Ale House, as…

Brewery Beat Elevator Brewing will celebrate their 15-year anniversary with a party and special bottle release at their Fourth Street brewery and taproom on Saturday, Nov. 8 from 12 – 8 p.m. Columbus Brewing Company…

What do you do when your favorite wine style becomes overrun with variations that aren’t to your taste? Make your own. That’s what Scott Zanon, an Upper Arlington resident who runs a medical supply company,…

They’ve been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Food Network, Rachel Ray, Fox Business and in Entrepreneur Magazine; their wares are served on every international, first-class Delta Flight; and, at some point, Justin…

Despite what any uninformed asshat may tell you, bourbon doesn’t have to be made in Kentucky or aged for any specific amount of time, unless it’s going for the designation of “straight bourbon.” What bourbon…

Brewery Beat In an issue dedicated to celebrating the ColumBEST, let’s kick off the booze news with the gold medal that Columbus Brewing Company brought home from the 2014 World Beer Cup for their Uncle…

Brewery Beat North High Brewing is expanding from a two-barrel (or BBL) brewing system to a 20BBL brewing system to be housed in a warehouse around the corner from its current bar and brew-on-premise facility,…

Tomos Mughan and Mike Gadd talk excitedly about the pop-up restaurants around the world they hope to emulate: on the roof of a still-being-built skyscraper, in an abandoned warehouse, on the subway… Well, don’t expect…